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arrival, of the undue prominence that had been given to our 

 expedition in the newspapers. They had taken advantag'e 

 of our lateness in returning, and of a hurricane that had re- 

 cently wrought much havoc on the Newfoundland coast, to 

 proclaim that we were probably lost. There was no founda- 

 tion whatever for their sensational accounts. We had not 

 encountered the hurricane, nor otherwise been in peril. 



The voyage on the whole was one of great pleasure and 

 profit. The wild, mountainous scenery of the coast alone 

 would have repaid us. The slowness of our progress made 

 impossible of accomplishment some of our original projects; 

 but it really interfered with very few of them, and, on the 

 other hand, it helped far more than it hindered. To it is 

 due the fact that we examined the coast in a more thorough 

 and detailed manner than had previously been accomplished, 

 and thus made a considerable number of observations and 

 discoveries of scientific interest, particularly along geological 

 lines. The results of our work will be given in Section VII 

 and followinsf. 



II 



SUMMARY OF THE VOYAGE, AND METEOROLOGICAL CON- 

 DITIONS. 



A considerable portion of the data about to be given 

 is derived from observations of such a nature that there can 

 be no question as to their accuracy. But others depend upon 

 the records of more or less faulty apparatus, and the tables 

 summarizing these records cannot lay claim to any high 

 degree of value. They may ser\'e to give a fairly good gen- 

 eral idea of the conditions under which the trip was made; 



